Murakami Quotes
I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.
Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.
I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.
If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.
What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.
When I wake up, my pillow’s cold and damp with tears. But tears for what? I have no idea.
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.
sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.
Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.
You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.
Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.
The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.
Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.
